Posted on 04/05/2010 1:54:47 PM PDT by Jack Black
The Institute for Race Relations reports that there's hundreds of thousands of young whites missing in South Africa. Newsweek also reports on the mass exodus of white, skilled families, asking: 'why are the brightest leaving this most successful state?"
The South African Institute for Race Relations says this week that the young white men -- aged 24 to 34 have mostly left the country now, and that there now are many more older white men than younger ones - when the reverse is the case in normal societies without wars.
There are two main reasons for this demographic oddity: the relentless murder campaign waged by heavily-armed, well organised black male gangs against white farmers: the latest murder toll is 3,038; together with the mass exodus of white, working-age families from South Africa ever since 1994 -- and which Digital Journal has also often reported about just recently.
This week's Newsweek feature article by Scott Johnson , headlined "Fleeing from South Africa,' asks: ' Fourteen years after apartheid, why are the best and the brightest leaving Africa's most successful state?" He writes: "The South African government doesn't keep reliable emigration statistics. But even as the global financial crisis has caused emigration from most other countries to slow, a number of recent independent studies show that mass departures from South Africa are ongoing and are sapping the nation of its skilled and best-educated young citizens.
"The most dramatic figures can be found among South African whites, who are leaving at a pace consistent with the advent of "widespread disease, mass natural disasters or large-scale civil conflict," according to a report by the South African Institute on Race Relations," he writes.
Destruction of an entire ethnic minority:
What Newsweek doesn't say however, is that more than 90% of all those 'whites' who have left, are actually Afrikaans-speakers, close-knit, often deeply religious members of a very distinct ethnic minority who view themselves as an independent nation, with their own language, culture and a very unique history. This exodus of 'whites' thus also marks the dissipation, the destruction of an entire ethnic minority in South Africa which has lived there since the 17th century.
The young generation of Afrikaners is being forced out of the country of their birth, and not only face the heartbreak of leaving their beloved continent behind them forever, but also having to leave their aging parents behind.
Newsweek continues:
"Some 800,000 out of a total white population of 4 million have left since 1995, by one count," he reports, adding: : "...this wasn't supposed to happen.. but (emigration) has been accentuated by a violent crime epidemic, serious political upheaval and economic globalization. A poll conducted last May among 600 people of different races, ages and genders (in South Africa) found that 20 percent were leaving the country'.
Crime, murders, rapes:
Sheepfarmer Johnny Cilliers in South Africa discovered his lawyer-dad tortured to death at his smallholding on February 16 2009. The dad, a lawyer who works at Cullinan law court, was hogtied, strangled, tortured and shot three times - in one of the many murders targetting white Afrikaners in South Africa since 1994.
"The primary driver for emigration among all groups, but especially whites (...) is fear of crime. With more than 50 killings a day, South Africa has one of the highest per capita murder rates in the world."
He continues: "The same goes for rape —ranking the country alongside conflict zones such as Sierra Leone, Colombia and Afghanistan."
Future Fact polling indicates that more than 95 percent of those eager to leave South Africa rate violent crime as the single most important factor affecting their thinking. )
Lynette Chen, the ethnic-Chinese CEO of Nepad Business Group, is the only member of her family left in South Africa. Her parents departed in 2002 after being carjacked—twice. Her brother, also a victim of crime, followed suit shortly thereafter. "They're always getting homesick," she says. "But they won't come back unless the crime is reduced."
White farmers attacked:
"Another largely unnoticed problem is the growing number of attacks on South Africa's white farmers. As in neighbouring Zimbabwe, some ... appear to be racially motivated. The result is that white farmers' numbers continue to decrease...' (see our previous report here) "Then there's the problem of affirmative action, which many whites feel limits their opportunities for advancement and which keeps many émigrés from returning. "You can attract people home, but there are still the same concerns when they get here," Chen says. "Crime and lack of job opportunities if you're not the right color." see
The SAIRR spokesman Frans Cronjé slammed the Newsweek article's as 'putting South African in a poor light', especially over its comment that 'white South Africans leave the country at a pace consistent with the advent of "widespread disease, mass natural disasters or large-scale civil conflict,"
However, he also felt that the Newsweek article raised a very important issue, and that it created awareness of the fact that so many white well-educated citizens have left the country.'
"The article shows the seriousness of the brain drain - and that the underlying causes must be urgently addressed,' Cronjé said.
Especially Afrikaner whites are increasingly leaving the country of their birth. The New Zealand and Australian embassies frequently hold emigration seminars, which are always overcrowded.
He also confirmed that most of the country's white South Africans aged between 24 to 40 have already left the country - some 750,000 -- since 1994. An entire generation of whites basically have now left the country, and there indeed are many more older white men, aged above 60 years, than young ones left in the country.
And now, a second wave of young emigrants is also beginning to leave, he said: young coloured and Indian families; together with the recent graduates among the black middle-class, are also departing.
However managing director Martine Schaffer of the Homecoming Revolution - launched by a South African banking group to try and lure its best customers back to the country -- slammed the report as 'last year's old news', describing it as sensationalised, inaccurate.." Although her organisation does not maintain any registers to back up her claims, she says there is no real brain-drain. There was a brief exodus from South Africa after the election of Jacob Zuma as leader of the ANC, xenophobic attacks, and Zimbabwe's economic crisis, ' she told the Afrikaans weekly Rapport today.
However, she denies that there has been a steady exodus of whites since 1994. And, she claims that due to the global financial crisis, many now are clamouring to return.
It is also a fact of life that middle-class whites in underclass-minority areas are seen as preferred targets by the underclass criminals class.
Still in Houston as opposed to another city.
Not always. Just enough that it is unsafe for non-blacks. Do you ever read the news? the media is full of stories of black on white crime (although sometimes you have to do the digging to find the races of the involved parties) and almost no stories of white on black crime.
Why is this so?
You really are an idiot, aren’t you?
If I were to walk through a black majority neighborhood unarmed at night by myself I would be an idiot. Since I will not do that, then I am not an idiot.
There’s you with that “we” again. I don’t recall electing you to speak on behalf of all white people.
Let's make a deal here. Rather than wasting my time saying "The vast vast majority of non-blacks" or some such, I will just say "we" or "white people" and you can read it as "the vast vast majority". Learn how to properly interpret generalizations. Obviously the statements don't apply to you so don't get all undie-knotted about them.
Yep, because *all* majority black areas are just like “Harlem”.
Seriously, you’re so damned stupid you can’t even think up an area that’s black and supposedly dangerous and isn’t from 1950.
Actually I used Harlem because most people recognize Harlem as a black majority area. The only other one I could have used that has similar name recognition would be Watts and Harlem is more widely known. Of course these days Detroit would probably also work but Harlem still has more name recognition
The statement holds true for any major city. There are neighborhoods in Cincinnatti where even the police will not go (unless things have radically changed in the last couple years). I talked to a buddy of mine just yesterday who has been told by homeless people in Anacostia (Washington D.C.) "You don't belong here, you need to leave" (he made a wrong exit off the freeway)
I can tell you that all-black areas were safer then, than they are now.
And this is the crux of the issue. The "black" culture has regressed into tribalism. Welfare (democrats) have destroyed the black family in this country
Sorry I meant to include you in the post above.
It is not only the Afrikaaner who has left. My in-laws are English South Africans and most of the family has fled as well. SA was and could be a paradise. My wife and I considered returning to retire in the 90’s but when we considered having to live behind bars, your alarm system rigged to summon SWAT Teams and having to strap on a gun just to go for a morning run, we decided it wasn’t worth it.
SA is just part of the world wide tragedy which is slowly playing out. Wherever the Marxists / Tribalists take over it is the same. Eastern Europe (finally reversed after ‘89) and right down through Africa, Kenya, Rhodesia, SA and soon the USA.
The sad part is western civilization has done it to themselves. The process has been slowed for years because the US was still strong, but now that Obama, a dedicated Marxist, (redistribution of wealth = “from each according to his ability, to each according to his need”)has taken over the looters are in charge here as well.
I am grateful that I am 71 and have no children, the loot here should be enough to last my lifetime but the collapse is coming. It really feels as if we are living in “Atlas Shrugged”.
One of my best friends and her husband, after living and working in the US for several years, decided that they could never go back to South Africa and live in fear behind bars. They have their US citizenship now and don’t plan to return to SF.
Katy...the home invasion types are not much of a concern for us.
Good to hear, we have cousins in Katy.
>>Most people here are smart enough to realize that just because *some* black people are gangbanging thugs, *most* are not.<<
My friends are not black gang bangers but they are Black and they are afraid of black gang bangers. The percentage of Blacks that have been arrested for violent acts has been increasing or haven’t you noticed?
You keep mentioning Stormfront. Are you a member? Why do you promote them, if you’re not?
“Eventually China will move its people in, and they will treat the blacks like the US treated the Native Americans.”
I don’t think blacks in Africa realize this.
I wonder why black governments don’t take this into account. This won’t be about the Chinese immigrating, it’ll be about colonizing.
They're going to let them sell tax-free cigarettes and build casinos to fleece the Chinese of their money?
This shows that Communism works really well...
BTW South Africa is now in bed with the Russians and Chinese.
They don’t care. All they care about is building their newest and largest Palace.
Example: Haiti.
Philadelphia
Two are Democrats — one is an independent but votes Republican. Her main issue is that “most taxation is outright theft.”
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